Sad Quotes

"Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving."

Alan Paton

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth."

Lord Byron

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Mark Twain

"Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it."

Albert Smith

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Grief is itself a medicine."

William Cowper

"Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord."

Arthur Golden

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

Charles Dickens

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

Tryon Edwards

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

Aeschylus

"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."

Nicholas Sparks

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

Oprah Winfrey

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

Haruki Murakami

"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Norman Cousins

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact."

Martha Beck

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

Henry Rollins

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

Eric Hoffer

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest."

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

L. M. Montgomery